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by spkthed 17y ago
I've been a ham operator since I was 10 so I have a little experience on the subject. Interference can come from anything. Lots of power supplies for surprising devices are culprits. The little cheap universal AC/DC adapters are one of
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by spkthed 17y ago
It's more than 56 :)
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by spkthed 17y ago
Cool, but not really on-topic for this website.
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by spkthed 17y ago
While the restaurant is cool, this might be slightly off-topic for Hacker News.
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by spkthed 17y ago
It's really simple. Amazon may make things convenient, but, they're also holding you to their beck and whim with these devices. Hold out until you can can own drm-free software and products so you can actually own things. If you don't,
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by spkthed 17y ago
It's not partisan differences or the system holding things back, California has a Democrat majority with the votes (24 out of 40) to push things through. Voters there are polling at a 1/3 approval rating for raising taxes. The majority ju
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by spkthed 17y ago
Taxes deprive the private sector of money. The net effect of not cutting programs when tax revenue is down is that you have to raise taxes even further to make up the gap increasing depression on the very area you are trying to help grow.
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by spkthed 17y ago
AdBlock Plus shouldn't have forced the issue by making it even more of an "island" war. They should have started with this kind of blog in the first place before escalating on the technical side. Okay, so, you do realize that Adblock faces
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by spkthed 17y ago
I'm giving an example of a way to approach this problem. Installing Noscript could add a rule to an Adblock whitelist. What Noscript is doing by trying to sneak it in is wrong. If they wanted to overwrite a rule, let the user do it. As
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by spkthed 17y ago
One of the big points in that article mirrors your example. The correct response is to allow the user to decide. "But targeting the other program in such a way is no different than someone installing two A/V softwares. Sure they may confli
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by spkthed 17y ago
I don't think they did overreact. Noscripts function is to block scripts, Adblocks function is to block ads. They found a popular plugin that attacks their functionality and they took steps to combat it. I'm glad they did so. The major p
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by spkthed 17y ago
The problem with your argument is huge. It requires you to basically have a whitelisted internet experience. Since most of the browsing we do is to new sites and new content, Adblockplus and Noscript have value in letting you evaluate the
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by spkthed 17y ago
I really don't understand it. A good education is a good thing, but it's hardly necessary to succeed in today's workforce. There's also lots of alternatives to getting a college education. As the cost to get an education continues to inc
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Time Warner Cable backs down on bandwidth caps!(pcmag.com)
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by spkthed 18y ago
Gentoo is based more for the tinkerer and full-time sysadmin. If you're prepared to spend time nursing the system, compiling everything, tweaking packages/the OS itself for every bit of performance possible, the Gentoo is a good solution.
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by spkthed 18y ago
My company works directly with them. I've not been directly involved but I've heard about everything every step of the way. They are slow to change, resistant to doing anything new, and their decisions are chaotic. Pretty much what you'd
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by spkthed 18y ago
Interesting article, but it doesn't seem to relate to the general area of this site.
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by spkthed 18y ago
This guy might be the best guy in the world but payday loans are predatory lending and regardless of the situation, puts people in a worse spot than they were before. Depending on the situation, they can charge over 1,000% interest. If pay
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by spkthed 18y ago
That's why getting a good soundsystem (read, one with a very nice range) is important. It's also why having an EQ is very handy.
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by spkthed 18y ago
It's a script that comes with most distros, but, not with Leopard by default at least. You probably could add it, but, it's a simple command either way and not everyone can add scripts like that.
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by spkthed 18y ago
osx/Linux ssh-copy-id replacement: cat ~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub | ssh 'ip/port/options' "cat >> 'home directory'/.ssh/authorized_keys"
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by spkthed 18y ago
Sure? It's like anything else, don't trust a single solution. In addition to local backups S3 is good, in addition to S3, Mosso. There will always be accidents, data loss, corruption, etc. The only way to mitigate that risk is simply to
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by spkthed 18y ago
You can easily get dual (possibly quad?)-cpu AMD mobo's and add to the power. It's the server line you'd use but same basic technology. $500 USD would get you a single Phenom 940 with 8GB of ECC ram, computers are cheap these days.
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by spkthed 18y ago
Apple has done a good job of keeping software relatively uniform, instead of having random menus, keystrokes, UI's they've managed to keep the look and feel of most programs relatively similar. But, key bindings are hardly OS dependent, ren
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by spkthed 18y ago
Most OS's give you the ability to remap keys as you see fit. in addition, most modern Linux distros allow you to hook up an Apple keyboard. Combine the two and this entire post is unnecessary. All of that being said, there's no difference
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by spkthed 18y ago
You're assuming several things: 1. That he has money to pay. 2. That he will pay the money he's ordered to pay. 3. That he will pay that money in a timely fashion. Bottom-line, this person is not going to give you a product that you're h
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by spkthed 18y ago
It would seem that the slow creep of the Digg/Reddit effect is beginning to surface. It may simply be me but the articles on here are beginning to lose some of the technical/interesting nature and starting to turn into broader, general int
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by spkthed 18y ago
That's exactly what interest-only loans are, heh.
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by spkthed 18y ago
If you invest and get 7% interest, after taxes you may get 1-2%. If you have to get 12%+ things look a lot different. Also, investing is risky, debt anchors you and keeps you from trying new things. At that point, you're gambling your ho
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by spkthed 18y ago
This is outstanding advice. Interest you gain is taxed while interest you owe is not. There's also risk involved. Debt at 8% costs you far more than investments at 15%. Debt first, a nicely funded Roth IRA, 401k, 6 months or so of living

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